When you first hire a personal assistant, they’re not all that helpful. Over time, they learn your daily routine, your needs and desires, and with that information, they make your life easier. Now, consider that your smart phone has morphed into your own mini personal assistant. Today’s smartphones are filled with potent sensors that collect data about you. Audio and image sensors, touch sensors, acceleration sensors, light, proximity, and location sensors all help your smartphone to get to know you and your habits. It knows where you go, when you go and how long you stay. It knows who you…

Access is the greatest opportunity and the greatest threat for businesses engaging with the online economy. Increasingly, our business systems gather, digest and disperse data throughout our operations, including confidential details about customers, employees and business partners. Mature cyber security processes are vital to protect this confidential information from unauthorised access, which can expose businesses to punishing and potentially lethal brand damage. In fact, even a cursory review of 2016 cybersecurity breaches — including the Yahoo! billion-user revelations, the DNC hack during the U.S. presidential election and the $81 million malware attack against a Bangladeshi bank — reveal their unprecedented…

Recently, Pwnie Express researchers released their third annual report on the wired, wireless, Bluetooth, IoT and BYOD challenges facing IT security professionals. It’s not your typical study. These researchers combine a survey of hundreds of IT security pros with “on-the-ground” data captured from Pwnie Express sensors, distributed across a number of businesses. This mix of human perspective and real-world data offers a more accurate picture of what’s really going on out there. This year’s report had some interesting findings that I wanted to point out. If you have time to read the report — and I recommend it — you…

Our always on, always connected world has fundamentally changed how businesses operate. Communicating with customers and employees will never be the same again with cloud solutions bringing many benefits by making things easier for businesses, and it’s happening whether we like it or not. But many businesses are placing trust in the cloud like they did for internal networks, without proper consideration for the challenges and deeper issues at hand. The added convenience of cloud applications also comes with a potential downside, such as potential security threats and surrender of control. Many people are familiar with the acronym “IoT,” and…

Centrify CEO Tom Kemp, an industry expert in security and infrastructure software, discusses market and technology issues around the disruption occurring in the Identity and Access Management market due to the cloud, mobile and consumerization of IT trends occurring in today's IT environment.